Research Assistant in The Department of Psychology

2 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom King's College London Full time

Job id: 086487. Salary: £37,332 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance.

Posted: 20 March 2024. Closing date: 02 April 2024.

Business unit: IoPPN. Department: Psychology.

Location: Denmark Hill Campus. Category: Research.

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Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funded research programme, which will evaluate a novel mindfulness intervention for adolescents with depression.

The intervention, Mindfulness for Adolescents and Carers (MAC), is delivered in small groups to older adolescents (15-18 years old) who have a history of depression, and to their parents and carers in separate parallel groups. The research programme will investigate MAC in several work packages: (1) developing and delivering training and supervision in MAC for child mental health practitioners; (2) developing an App to support between-group practice; (3) running a multisite hybrid clinical and cost-effectiveness randomised controlled trial; (4) investigating potential mechanisms of therapeutic change; and (5) developing an implementation toolkit.

The current post is to support the successful running of the trial (work package 3) at the London site. This will include supporting recruitment and assessment of young people and carers, assisting with intervention delivery, and data entry and management. The postholder will also support the ongoing delivery of a bespoke week-long experiential training programme for child mental health practitioners.

The postholder will be based at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Neuroscience (IoPPN), Denmark Hill, South London, working under the direction and supervision of Prof Patrick Smith. The postholder will also liaise with the wider study team including Chief Investigator Prof Tamsin Ford at Cambridge University, and collaborators in Exeter, Oxford, Nottingham, and Sussex.

This post will be offered on a full-time, fixed term contract for 12 months.

Key responsibilities

To assist the project team in all aspects of project delivery

To attend regular meetings with the work package leads, project team, and advisory group.

To actively promote and support patient and public involvement and engagement in the project

To take a central role in coordinating and maintaining trial recruitment in London

To complete assessments of young people and carers at this site

To ensure robust data collection, entry, and management

To assist in delivering the MAC intervention as required

To complete exit interviews with participants for qualitative analysis

To assist in delivery of training workshops as required

To maintain excellent communication with other trial sites

Any other duties appropriate to the grade and project as agreed with supervisor.
- The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post._

Skills, knowledge, and experience

Essential criteria

1. Degree in any life science (e.g. psychology, social science, clinical neuroscience, profession allied to medicine) at least at 2.i level or higher

2. Experience of recruitment to trials of psychological interventions

3. Experience of clinical assessments of young people and carers

4. Experience of data collection entry and management

5. Experience of working with young people

6. Knowledge of mindfulness based mental health interventions.

7. Knowledge of depression in young people

8. Ability to show attention to detail and high standards of accuracy in all aspects of work

9. Excellent interpersonal skills, report and scientific writing skills, ability to deliver information effectively through presentations

10. Flexible and problem-solving approach to work

11. Excellent IT skills in the following areas:

- Word processing
- Spreadsheets
- Communication software

Desirable criteria

1. Experience of trial coordination or management

2. Experience of contributing to the development and/or delivery of training workshops

3. Training and experience in teaching mindfulness

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